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jillan

(39,451 posts)
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 06:33 PM Feb 2016

Oooh Do we get to talk about Roger Clinton? Or how about Hillary's brothers?

Chuck Todd AND Eric Boehlert (MMA) want to go after Bernie's brother -so I guess brothers are fair game this election cycle!!
Oh goody!!

Roger- making money off of the tragedy in Haiti....

More recently, Roger Clinton parlayed his family ties into a consulting arrangement with a group of builders hoping to sell houses in Haiti, where Bill Clinton’s private foundation and Mrs. Clinton’s State Department helped direct recovery efforts after the 2010 earthquake. Roger Clinton’s intended role, previously unreported, was to use his connections to help win approvals, said Wayne Coleman, a Houston businessman involved in the project, which ultimately went nowhere.

“I paid Roger $100,000,” Mr. Coleman said. “Basically, he promised to get us a contract through the Clinton Foundation for a project over there. What he was really trying to do was sell the influence of his brother

Roger is not the only member of the Clinton extended family to have attracted unwanted attention: Mrs. Clinton’s brothers, Tony and Hugh Rodham, also surfaced in various attempts to obtain pardons from the Clinton White House and, in the case of Tony, an unsuccessful bid for his own housing deal in Haiti through the Clinton Foundation.

Representatives of the Clintons declined to answer written questions for this article. Lanny Davis, a special counsel in the Clinton White House who sometimes speaks for the family, issued a statement saying the “brothers live their own lives” and expressing hope that “their desire for privacy is understood by both the Republicans and the media.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/us/politics/clinton-first-brother-is-wary-chatty-and-still-occasionally-attracting-attention.html?_r=0
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Oooh Do we get to talk about Roger Clinton? Or how about Hillary's brothers? (Original Post) jillan Feb 2016 OP
They keep trying to open cans of worms SwampG8r Feb 2016 #1
Can o'snakes! JudyM Feb 2016 #4
You have no class. fun n serious Feb 2016 #2
I know - it's okay when the mud is being thrown on Bernie, but how dare anybody throw jillan Feb 2016 #3
Are you serious? fun n serious Feb 2016 #7
Educate yourself about the Clinton Foundation. panader0 Feb 2016 #12
The real issue is that the Clintons have no class... TheBluestEye Feb 2016 #6
Hillary has the whole of cable media, like Chuck Todd, to go low for her. NorthCarolina Feb 2016 #8
Well most millennials do not have cable fun n serious Feb 2016 #13
To be honest with you, NorthCarolina Feb 2016 #15
My kids are Millennials.. fun n serious Feb 2016 #16
Sure do have to nichomachus Feb 2016 #11
so much corruption if you dig... kgnu_fan Feb 2016 #5
I'm so old I remember Billy Beer. Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2016 #9
Lol - I remember that too!! jillan Feb 2016 #10
Owe, Brother Divernan Feb 2016 #14

jillan

(39,451 posts)
3. I know - it's okay when the mud is being thrown on Bernie, but how dare anybody throw
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 06:38 PM
Feb 2016

a speck of dirt on Hillary?

 

fun n serious

(4,451 posts)
7. Are you serious?
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 06:42 PM
Feb 2016

Take a look at the Hillary mud slinging here on DU and ALL of life everywhere. I didn't talk about Bernie's brother. Chuck Todd did.

 

TheBluestEye

(97 posts)
6. The real issue is that the Clintons have no class...
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 06:41 PM
Feb 2016

By the way, do you know if Roger Clinton will be singing at any of Hillary's upcoming fundraisers/events?

 

NorthCarolina

(11,197 posts)
8. Hillary has the whole of cable media, like Chuck Todd, to go low for her.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 06:47 PM
Feb 2016

Bernie just has his supporters.

 

fun n serious

(4,451 posts)
13. Well most millennials do not have cable
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 07:04 PM
Feb 2016

It's Netflix and Hulu for them right? So doesn't matter much but I see a lot of Hillary mudslinging.

 

fun n serious

(4,451 posts)
16. My kids are Millennials..
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 07:21 PM
Feb 2016

They prefer Netflix, Hulu and others. They tell me their friends are the same.

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
11. Sure do have to
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 06:51 PM
Feb 2016

When Mike Dukakis refused to respond in kind to GHW Bush's Hillary-like attacks, it cost him the election.

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
9. I'm so old I remember Billy Beer.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 06:48 PM
Feb 2016

Beer named after Billy Carter, Jimmy's redneck embarrassment of a brother.

Divernan

(15,480 posts)
14. Owe, Brother
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 07:09 PM
Feb 2016
In the Clintons’ White House years, presidential aides steeled themselves for grim news about the pair they called “The Brothers Rodham.” “You never wanted to hear their name come up in any context other than playing golf,” one former aide said in 2001.

his brother’s White House years.

The latest imbroglio involving Hillary Clinton’s brother Tony Rodham—a Department of Homeland Security watchdog report last week detailed his efforts to press the federal agency for visa approvals while his sister was secretary of state

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-brothers-hugh-tony-rodham-116674#ixzz40eq6nAwa

And from the 2008 primary time period:

Owe, brother!

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s youngest sibling is a deadbeat dad who owes tens of thousands of dollars in child support to his politically connected ex, The Post has learned. n a disclosure that could prove embarrassing for his sister, Anthony Rodham has stiffed his former wife, Nicole Boxer, out of $75,000 in child support, as well as $55,000 in alimony, a source close to the case said. Including interest and various fees and expenses, the presidential candidate’s brother now owes Boxer – the daughter of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) – more than $158,000, the source said.

The revelation that Rodham is delinquent with his payments won’t be a welcome development for Hillary Clinton, coming as the too-close-to-call battle for the Democratic presidential nomination reaches a fevered pitch and with the first votes to be cast in Iowa in exactly two weeks. Barbara Boxer has not endorsed a candidate in the race.

Nicole Boxer received judgments from a Washington judge ordering Rodham to pay up earlier this year, but the cash-strapped business consultant has yet to fork over the hefty sums. “He has consistently been a deadbeat dad when it comes to paying child support and spousal support, despite the courts telling him over and over again that he must meet his obligations,” a source close to Nicole Boxer said.

http://nypost.com/2007/12/20/hills-brother-a-deadbeat/
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